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...early!" said a Macy's ad in Manhattan last week. For $5.98 Macy's offered a space academy, complete with men from Mars and Jupiter, atomic launchers, flying saucers and disintegrators. From the look of things, Macy's was right. Just 45 shopping days before Christmas, toy counters all over the nation were piled high with mountains of space suits, rocket ships and other gravity-defying devices. Space was the big seller...
Kiddies' Rocket. In Hamburg, Germany, Exporter Günther Lukas was planning to supply the U.S. Christmas market with an up-to-date but frightening toy: a footlong, six-ounce rocket, similar to the German wartime V2, that zooms off a three-foot-long launching rack at almost 90 m.p.h., shoots up 300 feet. At the top of its climb, a small parachute breaks out from the nose and lets down the rocket slowly. It can then be refilled with a charge similar to those in firework skyrockets and used again. Price in Germany, about...
Definition. In Sunderland, England, Thomas Boyle, 45, walked into a department store and stole a toy six-shooter for one of his children, told police who arrested him: "The counter service was too slow, and that's criminal...
...blowing reveille scared the Huklings so that they clutched at nurses in fear. The first sight of soldiers in uniform made them duck; they were so disciplined to silence that the slightest shush from a nurse stopped their crying. The girls shrank from dolls, the boys were frightened by toy cars...
...your June 23 article on the patch over the eye of the Hathaway shirt man: I thought you might be interested in knowing that Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer, has just designed a toy duck for a large toy firm. The duck will have a patch over its eye. The company expects to make 5,000,000 of them, and I wouldn't be surprised if cows and horses take...